Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

Loss Control Auditing: A Guide for Conducting Fire, Safety, and Security Audits is a one-stop resource for both developing and executing a loss control audit program.

Herbert William Heinrich has been one of the most influential safety pioneers.

Labor Markets and Business Cycles integrates search and matching theory with the neoclassical growth model to better understand labor market outcomes.

In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D.

In the context of the evolution of affirmative action at the national and state levels, this study offers an empirical account of the citizens' movement in California that successfully resulted in the passage of a constitutional amendment to abolish such preferences in public education, public employment, and public contracting.

Japanese corporate governance and managerial practice is at a critical juncture.

Describes how to make economic decisions regading safety in the chemical and process industries Covers both technical risk assessment and economic aspects of safety decision-making Suitable for both academic researchers and practitioners in industry Addresses cost-benefit analysis for safety investments

Industry and Humanity was first published in 1918.

Why have some working women succeeded at organizing in spite of obstacles to labor activity?

Pressurized Water Reactors, Volume Three in the JSME Series on Thermal and Nuclear Power Generation, compiles the latest research on Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs) into a very comprehensive reference, beginning with its history.

In the last twenty years considerable progress has been made in process safety, particularly in regard to regulatory compliance.

“[This] admirably balanced book will most likely stand as the definitive account of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis for some time .

In the 1980s there was a surge of trade union power in South Africa.

What is public health?

Bonnie Ritter Book Award, National Communication Association's Feminist and Women Studies Division, 2008.

Presents and discusses the various reliability aspects of modern instrumentation systems for industrial processes, with special emphasis given to the influence of human behaviour on systems reliability.

In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing.

Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century.

In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slogan "e;Yes, we can"e;-in the form "e;,S,, Se Puede!

This collection examines Latina/o immigrants and the movement of the Latin American labor force to the central states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa.

At last, a book that covers safety procedures and standards with information that is rarely available outside of proprietary materials.

This book examines the changing fortunes of Australian trade unionism in the past 40 years.

Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries.

Working Without Commitments offers a new understanding of the social and health impacts of this change in the modern workplace, where outsourcing, limited term contracts, and the elimination of pensions and health benefits have become the new standard.

Professional safety is in danger of extinction.

This book holds the proceedings of the Conference on Applications of Structural Fire Engineering (ASFE 2017), held on September 7-8, 2017, in Manchester, UK.

Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities.

Plant Hazard Analysis and Safety Instrumentation Systems serves as a comprehensive guide to the development of safety instrumented system (SIS), outlining the connections between SIS requirements, process hazard analysis, SIS lifecycle, implementation, safety analysis, and realization in control systems.

Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm.

Along with the widespread use of computers have come growing fears that working in front of video display terminals (VDTs) can irritate and even damage the eyes.

This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination.

This insightful book addresses recovery as a comprehensive concept for prevention of health-threats in modern societies through active lifestyles.

This book bridges the gap between risk assessment and fire safety engineering like few other resources.

All firms wrestle with restructuring, involving consolidation of mergers and acquisitions on the one hand, and fragmentation through outsourcing and spin-offs on the other.

Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities confronts urgent architectural design challenges within residential innovation, ageing communities and healthcare environments.

In Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job.

Gendered Commodity Chains is the first book to consider the fundamental role of gender in global commodity chains.

The rise and fall of America's first truly interracial labor union For almost a decade during the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the CIO era.

Studying for exams, working in teams, writing detailed yet succinct reports and importantly time management aren't second nature to most, so this book provides clear guidance and will be an essential tool for anyone taking a health and safety course.

Boiling Water Reactors, Volume Four in the JSME Series on Thermal and Nuclear Power Generation compiles the latest research in this very comprehensive reference that begins with an analysis of the history of BWR development and then moves through BWR plant design and innovations.

Filled with practical insights, solutions, and tools, this book will help even veteran safety professionals better understand behavioral approaches to safety, improve safety performance and employee involvement, and obtain senior management support.

In 1975, after vigorous campaigning by the United Farm Workers union, the state of California passed the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), a pioneering self-help strategy granting farm workers the right to organize into unions.

Riots and Militant Occupations provides students with theoretical reflections and qualitative case studies on militant contentious political action across a range from across Europe to Nigeria, China and Turkey.

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 repeal the CDM Regulations 1994 and the Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996; containing all the legal duties regarding the design and management of a construction project and the safe operating standards expected on a construction site.

Arbeit ist nicht nur wirtschaftlich, sondern auch unter dem Aspekt der Gesundheit zu betrachten.

In this book, a methodology integrating qualitative reasoning and bond graphs is developed to construct intelligent supervisory control systems.

Leaving School and Starting Work